(via Man Uses a Canon 5D Mark II as a Secret Video Camera in North Korea)
This is the most insane video of North Korea I’ve ever seen. The quality, the work it took to capture the video and the scenes of daily Pyongyang life.
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The Guardian
Utterly fascinating.
“The government-run research group Korea Development Institute revealed a report prepared for President Lee that said that it would cost South Korea $2.1 trillion over 30 years to absorb North Korea if the North Korean regime suddenly collapsed with the death of Kim Jong-il. If South Korea succeeds in persuading the North to open up for a gradual economic integration with the South, the cost of unification will be around $322 billion, it said.”
Stunning.
Other defectors told similarly horrific stories. One said her appendix was removed without anesthesia and her hands and feet were bound to prevent her from moving during the procedure. Others told of entire cities with no ambulances.
This is North Korea. Humanitarian crisis doesn’t begin to describe the misery of North Korea.
“Sometimes she looks like a primary-school girl.”
Clinton Presses for Support as Pyongyang Hurls Scorn - WSJ.com
North Korea is this petty.
“Ms. Taguchi had taught her Japanese language and culture during her spy training after the Japanese woman was abducted to North Korea in 1978. Ms. Kim then used that knowledge to pose as a Japanese woman and bomb the Korean Air jet, killing all 115 aboard.”
— Former North Korean Spy Makes an Appearance (NYT)
This is the true story of the madness that is North Korea.
